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Bug 480880 - <net-mail/dovecot-2.2.5: POP3 "LIST" Command Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
Summary: <net-mail/dovecot-2.2.5: POP3 "LIST" Command Handling Denial of Service Vulne...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Keywording and Stabilization (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Eray Aslan
URL: https://secunia.com/advisories/54438/
Whiteboard:
Keywords: STABLEREQ
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-08-13 14:20 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2013-09-29 08:24 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-08-13 14:20:54 UTC
From ${URL} :

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Dovecot, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a 
DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling a terminated client connection during the 
"LIST" command processing and can be exploited to cause a crash.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.2.5.


Solution:
Update to version 2.2.5.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot-news/2013-August/000261.html


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please say explicitly if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Eray Aslan gentoo-dev 2013-08-14 05:45:01 UTC
@security: Please stabilize =net-mail/dovecot-2.2.5.  Thank you.
Comment 2 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2013-08-15 13:52:49 UTC
(In reply to Eray Aslan from comment #1)
> @security: Please stabilize =net-mail/dovecot-2.2.5.  Thank you.

Arches do stabilization, not security.

Arches, please test and mark stable:
=net-mail/dovecot-2.2.5
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"
Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-08-16 15:15:30 UTC
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-08-16 19:30:04 UTC
As per http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/14/6 is not a security bug, but we can stabilize to address the issue.
Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-08-16 19:38:56 UTC
amd64 stable
Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-08-16 19:43:08 UTC
x86 stable
Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-08-24 17:58:35 UTC
arm stable
Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-08-26 17:00:58 UTC
ppc stable
Comment 9 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-08-29 19:52:11 UTC
ia64 stable
Comment 10 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-09-02 11:14:25 UTC
alpha stable
Comment 11 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-09-05 12:19:57 UTC
ppc64 stable
Comment 12 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-09-07 20:16:11 UTC
sparc stable
Comment 13 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-09-28 20:46:30 UTC
SH is not anymore a stable arch, removing it from the cc list
Comment 14 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-09-28 20:49:31 UTC
S390 is not anymore a stable arch, removing it from the cc list